backing up photos to disc

[j0nb0y]

I have loads of digital photos on my laptop that I want to back up to a disc for safe keeping, probably in the region of a couple of thousand.

I was looking at recordable dvd's earlier, they had two types, -rw and +rw.

Can anyone advise me of the diffrence and which one is best for backing up my pics?

tia

[jno]

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[snags]

Also consider getting an external hard drive...

[jno]

yes, depending on the size of the photos, you may well need more than one CD. External hard drives may make more sense.

[VHG]

In fact a well as -rw and +rw there is also -r and +r

The minus and plus denote to slightly different technologies though to be honest they are very similar and most devices can cope with both. I tend to use minus for computer work but it is up to you.

The r and rw denote different things.

An "r" disk, once written on, cant be deleted or overwrittten.

An "rw" disk CAN have stuff deleted off it.

So for backups use R disks not RW.

While an external hard disk is a very useful thing to have nowadays they can crash so I would back photographs up to DVD as well just to be sure.

Better to have too many backups than not enough.